HEALTH CONDITIONS 



munity. No doubt a part of the typhoid 

 fever is due to cases of " walking typhoid" ; 

 and the danger of the spread of tubercu- 

 losis and other diseases by means of poorly 

 housed, unguided and transient farm labor 

 is by no means inconsiderable. 



The school 



Of course, the school has a responsibility 

 to public health, for good health is mostly 

 a direct question of teaching. The school 

 should teach persons how to live. This 

 means that every pupil who has had any 

 school training should have some kind of 

 an idea of the bodily functions and their 

 control, and how and what to eat. It is 

 less important to teach physiology as ordi- 

 narily understood than to teach hygiene. 

 It is the part of the schools to correct and 

 eliminate the mock sentiment that now 

 precludes an understanding of the natural 

 functions of the human body. The lack of 

 discussion and rational knowledge of these 

 subjects contributes directly not only to 

 physical inefficiency but to a coarse vul- 

 garity. It is a good suggestion recently 



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